Immigrant Life
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    Black Joy (1978)

    Black Joy is the lightly ironic title of this British culture-clash comedy. Trevor Thomas heads the...

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    Drachenfutter (1988)

    Drama about the plight of Asian immigrants in Hamburg, West Germany.

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    My Father Is Coming (1991)

    The assimilation of a lesbian German woman and her conservative father to New York's Lower East...

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    Like a Bride (1997)

    Two Mexican-Jewish women (Claudette Maille, Maya Mishalska) upset their traditional families with...

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    Chinese Chocolate

    Following their dreams to the West, two young Chinese women, strangers to each other, take the same...

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    Floating Life (1996)

    A look at the Chinese diaspora focusing on a family scattered across the world. In Germany, one...

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    Junk Food (1998)

    An urban fairy tale which traces twenty-four hours in the lives of various troubled Toykoites: a...

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    Things I Left in Havana

    Three Cuban sisters seek a better life in Madrid, where they stay with an aunt who has plans for...

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    After Freedom (2004)

    Michael Abcarian is a young Armenian man living in Glendale, California with a growing sense of...

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    Beyond Honor (2006)

    A young Egyptian-American woman raised and living in southern California is severely abused by her...

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    Romantico (2006)

    A mariachi musician struggles to earn a living in his native Mexico and considers returning to San...

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    I for India (2007)

    Yash Pal Suri records his experiences in England and sends them to his relatives back in India.

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    Punching at the Sun

    In the aftermath of 9/11 and his older brother's murder, a fiery South Asian teen struggles to find...

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    Farewell China

    A couple from mainland China are separated when the wife obtains a student visa, comes to New York...

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    42 Up (1999)

    Filmmaker Michael Apted reconnects with the subjects of his previous documentaries who are...

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    American Rhapsody (2001)

    After fleeing Communist Hungary in the 1950s, a couple (Nastassja Kinski, Tony Goldwyn) reunites...

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    Beyond the Ocean (2002)

    Pitsee, a young pregnant Russian woman, has just arrived in New York to begin her new life with her...

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    The City (1999)

    The stories of four Hispanic immigrants living in New York City.

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    Enemies, A Love Story (1989)

    Comedy drama set during the 1940s and 1950s in Coney Island and Brooklyn, revolving around a...

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    My Family, Mi Familia (1995)

    The narrated saga of a Mexican-American family reflects the 20th-century growth of the Los Angeles...

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    Split Decision (2001)

    Filmmaker Marcy Garriott chronicles rising boxer Jesus Chavez, who is deported back to Mexico for a...

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    Beautiful People (2000)

    Set in 1993, the war raging in Bosnia manages to spill over into London and into the lives of...

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    Delbaran

    Kaim, an Afghan boy of 14, succeeds in crossing the border into Iran. Several miles in, he finds...

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    Tar Angel

    Story of Algerian emigrants in Quebec.

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    Escape to Paradise

    A Kurdish family arriving in Switzerland has to go through a series of formalities to obtain...

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    L' Afrance

    El-Hadj Diop, a young Senegalese, is studying in Paris. His residency permit having come to an end,...

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    El Super

    Filmed in the US but acted in Spanish, El Super is a warmhearted spin on the plight of Cuban exiles...

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    Roveh Huliot

    The Wooden Gun takes place in Tel Aviv in the early 1950s. In a clear-eyed fashion that would have...

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    My Mother, My Daughter

    Alice (Alice Werblowsky) grew up in Europe, her father is Italian, and she came to San Francisco to...

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    Nightsongs

    Story of an immigrant experience, focusing on a Chinese family living in New York City's Chinatown.